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ISBN-10: 0571368042
ISBN-13: 9780571368044
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publish Date: 02/08/2022
Dimensions: 7.70" L, 4.90" W, 0.50" H

Palace of the Peacock

Foreword by: Jamaica Kincaid

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Price: $12.95

Overview

A radical landmark in Caribbean literature, reissued with a new foreword by Jamaica Kincaid to mark Wilson Harris’ centenary: a visionary masterpiece tracing the dreamlike voyage of a riverboat crew through the jungle.

I dreamt I awoke with one dead seeing eye and one living closed eye …

A crew of men are embarking on a voyage up a turbulent river through the rainforests of Guyana. Their domineering leader, Donne, is the spirit of a conquistador, obsessed with hunting for a mysterious woman and exploiting indigenous people as plantation labour. But their expedition is plagued by tragedies, haunted by drowned ghosts: spectres of the crew themselves, inhabiting a blurred shadowland between life and death. As their journey into the interior – their own hearts of darkness – deepens, it assumes a spiritual dimension, guiding them towards a new destination: the Palace of the Peacock …

A modernist fever dream; prose poem; modern myth; elegy to victims of colonial conquest: Wilson Harris’ masterpiece has defied definition for over sixty years, and is reissued for a new generation of readers.

The Guyanese William Blake … [Such] poetic intensity. — Angela Carter

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Perhaps the most inimitable [writer] produced in the English-speaking Caribbean. – Fred D'Aguiar

An extraordinary writer ... Courageous and visionary ... It speaks to us in tongues. – Pauline Melville

One of the great originals ...Visionary ... Dazzlingly illuminating. – Guardian Revel in the inviolate, ever-deepening mystery of Wilson Harris's work. – Jeet Thayil

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Details

ISBN-10: 0571368042
ISBN-13: 9780571368044
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publish Date: 02/08/2022
Dimensions: 7.70" L, 4.90" W, 0.50" H
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